demises
Lives coming undone
Demises is the plural of demise, meaning deaths or endings.
A demise is typically a death, often of someone notable: the demises of three former presidents in a single year.
Extended to institutions or abstractions, demise means termination or failure: the demises of several once-dominant retailers.
The word carries a formal or euphemistic tone.
Cessation of life
- passingMoving by or temporary
- expirationEnd of validity
- deceaseEnd of life
- perishingIn process of dying
mortality · fatality · extinction · loss · end · departure · quietus · final breath
Final portion or cessation
- terminationAct of ending something
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- cessationA full stopping
- finaleConcluding part of performance
closure · discontinuation · collapse · downfall · ruin · extinction · halt · finish
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- collapseSudden structural failure
- downfallSudden loss of power
ruin · defeat · overthrow · fall · decline · deterioration · destruction · undoing
death
Cessation of life
- passingMoving by or temporary
- expirationEnd of validity
- deceaseEnd of life
perishing · mortality · fatality · extinction · loss · end · departure · quietus · final breath · last breath
end
Final portion or cessation
- terminationAct of ending something
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- cessationA full stopping
finale · closure · discontinuation · collapse · downfall · ruin · extinction · halt · finish · curtain
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- liquidationSelling assets for cash
- collapseSudden structural failure
downfall · ruin · defeat · overthrow · fall · decline · deterioration · destruction · undoing · wreckage
demisesbirths
Acts of being born
origins · beginnings · starts · foundings · inceptions